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the daylight out of

the daylight out of is the alternative form of the daylights out of.

Meaning of the daylights out of

Adverb

the daylights out of (not comparable)

  1. (informal) Used as an intensifier between a verb and its object: thoroughly, with vigour, to an intense degree.
    • It scared the daylights out of us!

Questions about the daylight out of

What is the daylight out of the alternative form of?
The daylight out of is the alternative form of the daylights out of.

Words near the daylight out of in the dictionary

  1. the darkest hour is always just before the dawn
  2. the darkest hour is just before the dawn
  3. the darkest place is under the candlestick
  4. the day
  5. the day before
  6. the daylight out of
  7. the daylights out of
  8. the dear knows
  9. the deuce
  10. the deuce you say
  11. the devil

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Adapted from Wiktionary: the daylight out of (page history and authors); the daylights out of (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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